Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Hawley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 5, 1980PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
The defendants Charles W. Hawley and Terry Lee Gibney, jointly tried and convicted by a Berkshire County jury on indictments for perjury (G. L. c. 268, § 1), took their appeals pursuant to G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A- 33G, and we transferred the cases here on our own motion. Their joint assignments of error are numerous but we need not canvass them all. 2 We hold that there was no error in the denial of their motions at the close of the Commonwealth’s case for directed verdicts of acquittal, but that the judgments should be set aside because of improper statements by the prosecutor in his argument…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Griffin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Donnelly v. DeChristoforoSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. DomanskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1954
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3Cited by36 opinions
- Commonwealth v. KozecMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- Commonwealth v. ClaryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
- Commonwealth v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
- Commonwealth v. ThomasMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- Commonwealth v. DraytonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
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